Technical Operator

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You have in-depth mastery of one technical process and maintains that process using progressive maintenance standards, troubleshooting on multiple processes and issues when necessary. You also lead at least one standard work process for your team.

How you will contribute

Without you, we could not deliver high-quality snacks to our customers. You will operate and maintain equipment to build technical mastery and to deliver on safety, quality, cost, delivery, sustainability and morale targets, understanding losses in your area and taking the appropriate action to eliminate them. You will use autonomous and progressive maintenance standards to maintain equipment and support new product development. In this role, you will ensure that safety processes are observed, and that quality assurance activities are performed. You will take an active role in shutdown maintenance, root-cause analysis, stops reductions loss analysis and breakdown elimination.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• Autonomous maintenance (AM) Step 4 systems and the advanced skills to maintain equipment at basic conditions, including AM and progressive maintenance (e.g., breakdown maintenance, planned maintenance) standards on dedicated equipment
• Phase 2 tools including AM Step 4, working principle, general inspection, focused improvement 12 steps, and quality management Steps 3-6
• Leading a standard work process using a plan-do-check-adjust approach

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

As a Technical Operator you will contribute towards the above by actively participating in the manufacturing process. Please note that you will be required to work shifts.

What extra ingredients you will bring:

In line with the job purpose, key outputs of this job will entail but not limited to the following:

• Co-ordination of all equipment/machinery within the department, including cleaning of equipment (preparing, stripping, cleaning, and re-assembling), set-up, starting, operating, monitoring, adjustment, shutting down of equipment and leading changeovers.
• First line maintenance and troubleshooting to identify equipment/machinery problem/s and identification of cause/s, optimizing machine performance and planning maintenance events.
• Conducting Safety audits,
• Completing all worksheets and documentation, i.e., job cards, OEE sheets, production sheets, Quality process sheets, safety sheets, etc.
• Monitoring of compliance to Hygiene, Safety, Quality and Housekeeping standards in the manufacturing of product and handling product and equipment changeovers where appropriate.
• Planning daily production by checking and confirming resource availability, requisitioning material, and consumables according to plan and running to plan per day.
• Participating in all improvement initiatives (continuous improvement CI),
• Ensuring that you have an efficient team by participating in annual performance reviews, ensuring skills transfer through training and coaching, and mentoring of your team

Education / Certifications:

In order to succeed in this role, it is expected that the ideal candidate will have:

• An essential pre-requisite to your application will be your Grade 12, “old” Std 10 NQF level 3 or Equivalent (i.e., demonstrated ABET 5 - Literacy and Numeracy - levels).
• Millwright background is a must.
• Trade Certificate will be advantageous.
• Candidates will be required to enroll and compete the internal Technical Operator training program to Level 3. Successful completion of this program is a pre-requisite to being appointed in the role.
• Preference will be given to those applicants who are either in possession of/ or studying towards a mechanical and / or electrical qualification (NQF level 5)
• Essential to attaining this appointment will also be your demonstrated assessed mechanical / technical aptitude (required to carry out this job function).
• Essential to attaining this appointment will also be your demonstrated assessed
• Certainly, desirable would be your previous knowledge and experience in related Safety, Quality (HACCP, ISO) standards and your previous assessed competence and/or experience in a FMCG process/operation.
• Applicants MUST be willing to undergo comprehensive assessment. - Results of these assessments will be used as part of selection criteria & any feedback/results will be available to any applicants who undergo same
• Computer literacy

Job specific requirements:

• Participate in the IL6S programme
• Independent worker
• Problem Solving
• Conflict Management
• Decision making skills
• Written communication skills
• Ethics and values
• Ability to 'Think on feet’
• Display influential, accountable and adaptable behavior.
• High drive

Travel requirements:

Work schedule:

Shift

Business Unit Summary

Mondelēz International’s Sub Saharan Africa Business Unit is made up of three key focus areas namely Southern Africa, West Africa and the Rest of Africa Markets.  The Business Unit is home to approximately 1000 Makers and Bakers who strive to bring only the best quality and loved brands to our consumers. Mondelēz International in Sub Saharan Africa is proud to house global legacy brands including Cadbury Dairy Milk, Oreo, Halls and Bournvita, together with local jewels such as Cadbury LunchBar, Chappies, TomTom and Dentyne.  The Business Unit’s Markets have consistently been awarded Top Employer certification, and has been recognised as a Top Employer in Africa.  

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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